DC30 Xact Driver is a driver for the popular old video
capture card DC30/DC30plus, with real time support for Final Cut Pro.
Compatible with the Power Mac G4 and G3 B&W only. FOR MAC OS X
ONLY.

DC30 Xact Driver is a software driver for miroMOTION DC30 and DC30plus
video capture cards. It works in Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar), 10.3 (Panther)
or 10.4 (Tiger) or 10.5 (Leopard) and with the Power Mac G4, enabling
video input
and video output. It enables audio input and output as well, with Mac
OS X native support.
Please note: the DC30/DC30plus does not fit in the PCI/PCI-X/PCI
Express slots of the Power Mac G5 and not even in the Mac Pro. More
details below in this
page.

This
software requires a video capture card DC30/DC30plus, and a Power Mac
G4.

Do not install this software if you got
here by mistake while looking for MPEG Streamclip.

This version is not fully compatible with Final Cut Pro 5. Another
update is
still planned.
However there are no plans to release an Intel version.
If you need the DC30 Lossless codec, you can install this driver in
your Intel Mac and use the Lossles codec in MPEG Streamclip running
with Rosetta.

Version
changes (click to show)

compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Features

The
DC30/DC30plus is now a real-time card, with scaled and windowed HD
support, using the powerful RT Extreme Booster, the unique feature
that, for the first time ever, extends the real-time power of Final Cut
Pro HD to MJPEG and other formats, and works also in your PowerBook for
offline editing. And the DC30/DC30plus, now can deliver professional,
uncompressed video; with the included LOSSLESS 4:2:2 codec, it can be
stored efficiently, saving 50% of your disk space. This driver also
enables high-quality FireWire capture of MJPEG and LOSSLESS movies,
even in a PowerBook or where the DC30/DC30plus is not installed. These
movies can be used later with the DC30/DC30plus, together with DV,
DVCPRO50, DVCPRO HD movies.

This software requires a Power Macintosh G4 with Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)
or 10.3 (Panther) or 10.4 (Tiger) or 10.5 (Leopard), and works with
miroMOTION DC30 and
DC30plus, enabling PAL/NTSC/SECAM video input and PAL/NTSC video
output. It enables audio input and output as well, with Core Audio (Mac
OS X native) support. Audio is locked, so it is always synchronized
with video, even in very long movies.

This driver is very stable, and works well even with slower Power
Macintosh G4 computers, giving high-quality MJPEG-A and professional
uncompressed digital video editing with Apple Final Cut Pro 3, 4, 4.5,
and Adobe Premiere 6.5. RT Extreme feature of Final Cut Pro HD is
supported and improved.

With the Multicodec feature, this driver greatly extends DC30 series
capabilities in faster G4 computers, with video output support for
almost every movie compression supported by QuickTime, within QuickTime
Player, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, Free DV, ProTools, Logic, iMovie...
and Finder columns!

You can capture video with Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, and
video capture applications like myVCR (www.dplusplus.com) which is in
development, and BTV (www.bensoftware.com) which is shareware.

This driver supports video output from the free VLC Media Player
(www.videolan.org/vlc), allowing DVD media content to appear on your
PAL/NTSC monitor! This feature works in every G4 computer equipped with
a DVD-ROM unit, and with a DC30/DC30plus connected to a 4:3 or 16:9 TV
monitor, but the full DVD frame rate and quality can be reached only
with two fast G4 processors.

The driver also supports video output from iTunes Visualizer: you can
watch your music on your TV. Some video output support for DVD Studio
Pro has been added, too.

This driver is compatible with most of existing DC30 and DC30plus
capture cards. However, a few DC30/DC30plus cards may not work with
this driver, especially when installed in particular computer
configurations (see below for more info). If you have one, please
contact me.

This driver comes for free, and there is no guarantee of support.
However, if you report your issues (as well as your positive or
negative comments), this will be appreciated and it is likely that
future updates will solve them.

Compatibility

This driver was originally written to support a miroVIDEO (PC) version
of DC30plus card in Mac OS X; then it was extended to miroMOTION (Mac)
versions of DC30/DC30plus. So this driver is now compatible with the
miroMOTION DC30plus, the miroMOTION DC30, the miroVIDEO DC30plus and
most of the miroVIDEO DC30 cards. However, the first revision of
miroVIDEO DC30 card for PC, is not fully supported: the current release
adds video capture but not video output. The DC20 and DC10 do not work
with this driver, and future releases will not add support for these
cards.

There is a slight hardware compatibility issue with the DC30/DC30plus
and some early G4 computers, e.g. the G4 PCI Graphics and the G4 AGP
Sawtooth. The cause of this issue is most likely in the chip "Intel
21154"; random system freezes may happen when the DC30/DC30plus is on
and the computer is sending data to a fast USB device or a PCI graphic
card. A workaround for the miroVIDEO card has been included in the
current release; a workaround for the miroMOTION card is yet to be
found (but you can now temporarily switch the card off). The Intel chip
is not present in newer Macs with 4 PCI slots + 1 AGP so this issue
does not affect these G4 computers.

The DC30/DC30plus does not fit in any of the new PCI and PCI-X and PCI
Express connectors of the Power Macintosh G5 1.6, 1.8, Dual 1.8, Dual
2.0, Dual 2.3, Dual 2.5, Dual 2.7, Quad 2.5 GHz, and any Mac
Pro. And since the current
PowerMac G5 and Mac Pro series does not even support PCI or PCI-X
cards, any driver
development effort for the Power Mac G5 and the Mac Pro has been
abandoned. Therefore,
DC30 XACT DRIVER DOES NOT WORK WITH THE POWERMAC G5 OR THE MAC PRO.